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GCHQ collaborated with agents at America’s National Security Agency to spy on German ministries, humanitarian charities and the EU’s competition commissioner, it was claimed last night.

Spiegel magazine said that the latest documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower, showed that Britain’s intelligence-gathering centre targeted several ministries in Berlin, the UN development programme, the UN’s children’s charity Unicef and Médecins du Monde, a French charity operating in war zones.

Other GCHQ targets included the German embassy in Rwanda and e-mail accounts listed for “the Israeli Prime Minister” — at the time Ehud Olmert — and the former Defence Minister, Ehud Barak